Evil Uncle / Comic Books

• Adventure Comics: The 2009 edition had an arc titled "Superboy: The Boy of Steel", where Lex Luthor holds his own niece Lori hostage to persuade Kon-El to follow his instructions so he'll agree to cure Lori's mother of her paralysis. Luthor is true to his word, but he immediately thereafter undoes his sister's cure and in doing so upsets his niece just to be an asshole.
• Arawn: Fenris tries to usurp his nephew Arawn's throne after he's become an Evil Overlord. Of course, since he's already a virtual deity by this point, Fenris' insurrection is squashed pretty quickly.
• Blue Beetle: Jarvis Kord, uncle to the second Blue Beetle Ted Kord, and one of his more dangerous enemies.
• Danger Mouse: In the U.K. TV book Look-In, the Danger Mouse stories feature Baron Greenback's "white sheep" nephew, Hopalong Casually, who helps DM and Penfold defeat the Baron's schemes.
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck, of all people (ducks), has occasionally bordered on this trope, especially in Italian comics. While not actively malicious — most of the time — he thinks nothing of exploiting and downright abusing his relatives, using various threats such as removing them from his will, evicting them from their homes or even heaps of physical violence in order to get them to work for him for one-tenth minimum wage. In addition, he uses any trick or excuse to avoid having to pay them at all, and interestingly enough he almost always gets away with it.
• Green Lantern: The "Hard-Traveling Heroes" crossover with the Connor Hawke Green Arrow in volume three had Kyle Rayner being manipulated into assisting a man he thinks is his father Aaron in a plot to commit domestic terrorism. At the end of the storyline, the man confesses on his deathbed that he's really Kyle's Uncle Zachary.
• New Gods: Darkseid's uncle Steppenwolf is pretty evil and he wasn't too thrilled about Darkseid's rise to power (not out of ambition but simply because he didn't like the idea of anyone being able to take anything from him), but Darkseid is worse. Much, much worse. However, he's steadfastly loyal to his nephew, and unlike every other New God on Apokalips, he's not interested in ruling at all (which is one of the reasons he's loyal) — he much prefers hunting and leading the Parademons.
• Shazam!:
  • In a short-lived '80s reboot Shazam!: The New Beginning, Billy "Captain Marvel" Batson's arch-nemesis Doctor Sivana was revealed to be his step-uncle. This was undone a few years later. Note that back in The Golden Age of Comic Books, Billy already had an Evil Uncle, Ebenezer Batson, who kicked him out on the streets after his parents died; Uncle Ebe was restored in the '90s Continuity Reboot that set the current canon.
  • In the New 52 revamp that largely served as back-up material for Geoff Johns' Justice League run, it's established that Black Adam sacrificed his own nephew to hold onto his powers due to being driven by the desire for revenge against the deaths of his other relatives. And this is after his nephew gave him the powers to prevent him from dying, to boot.
• She-Hulk: Jennifer Walters' uncle Brian Banner, who gave her cousin hell as a child and even in death, Brian tries to attack Jennifer on several occasions just for being associated with poor Bruce.
• Superman:
  • Nasthalthia 'Nasty' Luthor was a criminal who tried to make Supergirl's life impossible back in the Silver Age. Her uncle is Lex Luthor, one of the main super-villains of The DCU.
  • Superman: Earth One reinterprets Superman's enemy General Zod as his uncle and makes him responsible for the destruction of Krypton, intending to finish the heinous crime of wiping out the rest of the Kryptonian race by killing his own nephew.
• Swamp Thing: Anton Arcane more than fulfills this role towards his niece Abby, including lusting after her in an entirely non-avuncular manner.
• Teen Titans: Gar "Beast Boy" Logan was handed over to his uncle, Nicholas Galtry. Galtry was a vicious jerk who made it no secret that he was just after the money Gar's parents left for his care. The kid ran away and found Doom Patrol, and the Patrol had no problem telling the guy to pick on someone his own size and power level...
• Tom Strong: The comic revealed at one point that Tom's archenemy Paul Saveen is actually his half-brother, which makes him Tesla's uncle and means he had been attacking his own niece all these times he fought the Strong family.
• Ultimate Spider-Man: Miles Morales had his uncle Aaron Davis, the Ultimate Prowler (later rethemed into the second Prowler once Miles' history got brought into Earth-616).
• Wonder Woman:
  • Sensation Comics: Pete and Gertie Allen are abused by and have to be rescued from their villainous uncle Joe Bamko by Wonder Woman.
  • Wonder Woman (1942): The recently crowned King Philippe of Barania is imprisoned and declared to be losing his mind from grief and stress by his uncle Gaston, with Gaston's end goal being to kill Philippe and frame it as a natural death or suicide and take the crown for himself.
  • Wonder Woman: Black and Gold: In "Beyond the Horizon" Thomas Chapman kidnaps his four neiphlings for a ransom and then drinks himself to death, leaving the children to starve to death while trying to figure out how to sail his boat back to land. Only the youngest lives long enough to be rescued.
• X-Men:
  • In X Men The Hidden Years, a series that chronicled early, apocryphal adventures of the original team of X-Men, Angel's uncle is revealed as an anti-mutant bigot who hates himself for not killing Angel when he was a child.
    • Even originally, Angel's uncle Burt was a supervillain responsible for the deaths of both his parents on separate occasions.
  • Poor Empress Xandra, daughter of Charles Xavier and the late Lilandra Neramani has it rough. She's got not one, but two evil aunts in Deathbird and Cassandra Nova. On the plus side her maternal uncle D'ken is long since dead and her step-uncle Cain more of less mellowed out.

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